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How To Survive Long Term as a Trader | Stock Trading Tips

How To Survive Long Term as a Trader | Stock Trading Tips

by | Jan 20, 2020 |

I was visiting the Guinness Book of Records museum with my family in Los Angeles today (my kids love that stuff…) and it got me thinking about all the people who spent their lives trying to break a record. So few actually break world records, even in obscure activities, but people still try!

If you want to succeed as a profitable stock trader for the next 10 years or more then you need to NOT be like people trying to break a record… you need a higher probability approach.

In trading this means having a high probability of profit over many trades over many years. Too many traders act like they want to get rich by next week, but that only guarantees their failure in the long run because they end up blowing up and losing everything!

Optimizing an Amibroker trading system the right way

Optimizing an Amibroker trading system the right way

by | Jan 20, 2020 |

A trading system is a group of specific parameters that combine to create buy and sell signals for a given security. I would say almost every successful trader has a trading system, but not every trading system is successful because many stock traders optimize their trading systems the wrong way.

In this video I will show you the correct way to optimize a parameter value in Amibroker. The great thing is when you optimize your trading system like this it only takes minutes and you end up with a much more robust trading system.

How to deal with outlier trades in Amibroker Backtesting

How to deal with outlier trades in Amibroker Backtesting

by | Jan 20, 2020 |

When backtesting and optimizing your trading system using Amibroker, or any other trading software, you need to be careful how you deal with outlier trades. If you include all outlier trades when you optimize you run a very high risk of curve-fitting your trading system to a small number of the biggest winning trades.

Position Sizing In Amibroker With SetPositionSize Function

Position Sizing In Amibroker With SetPositionSize Function

by | Jan 20, 2020 |

Backtesting the most common position size models explained by Van Tharp in “Trade Your Way To Financial Freedom” and “The Definitive Guide To Position Sizing” is easy in Amibroker.
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In this video I explain how to write the most common position sizing models in Amibroker Formula Language and backtest your trading system with them Amibroker.